Your Raspberry Pi is about to start doing several exciting new tricks, as Broadcom decided to finally open source a sister chip to the BCM2835 onboard every RasPi.

It’s been a short, chaotic ride for the inexpensive computer we know as the Raspberry Pi. This tiny computer has been making headlines for several years now as it opened new doors to inexpensive computers and promoting the idea that makers and developers can build unique new concepts without breaking the bank. There’s clearly a lot more that can be done with this hardware, but up to now it had been limited by Broadcom’s proprietary video stack. With a little luck and some clever developers driven by an exciting new contest, those limits will soon be a thing of the past.

The team at Raspberry Pi speculates that the recently open sources and thoroughly documented BCM21553 cell phone chip is close enough to the chip on the Pi that it is possible that the blobs currently required to do much of anything on the Pi can be replaced with more capable software. To help demonstrate this, Raspberry Pi has created a contest that brings back a little bit of Pi history. The first developer to demonstrate the ability to run Quake III at a playable framerate on the Raspberry Pi will earn themselves $10,000 and the gratitude of every Pi users in the world today. This has been a target from as far back as 2011 for the Pi team, and there’s a good chance that it won’t take long for this contest to come to an end.